[aur-general] dpkg outdated - orphan request

[Stefan Husmann]

Am 10.02.2010 01:03, schrieb Christian Scharkus:
> Hi.
>
> I informed the maintainer of the dpkg package yesterday via mail that
> his package is outdated and he should update it.
> I flagged the package itself as outdated, too.
> I haven't received an answer yet but someone removed the flag from the
> package. The package itself is a depency of another outdated package
> (debhelper).
> The packages can't be build because the sauce isn't on the servers
> anymore and the maintainer of debhelper is unable to update his
> PKGBUILD because of dpkg as missing dep.
> So I request to orphan the dpkg package in order to enable myself to update it.
>
> Thanks and Greetings
>
> Christian Scharkus
>

Hello,

normally I would say that one day is too short to expect answers. But if
the maintainer has the time to unflag his package, he should also have the
time to drop a short remark why he did so or why he does not want to update.

So, orphaning.